Potato Science for the Poor

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Potato Science for the Poor

• Charles Crissman
• International Potato Center
• SLU-CGIAR Workshop
• Uppsala, Sweden
• 23-24 September 2008

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MISSION CIP seeks to reduce poverty and achieve
food security on a sustained basis in
developing countries through scientific research
and related activities on potato, sweetpotato,
and other root and tuber crops and on the
improved management of natural resources.
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CIP offices
Tashkent,Uzbekistan
New Delhi, India
Orissa, India
Beijing, China
Nagaland, India
Hanoi,Vietnam
Manila, Philippines
Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
Quito, Ecuador
Kampala, Uganda
Bogor,Indonesia
CIP Headquarters, Peru
La Paz, Bolivia
Nairobi, Kenya
Huambo, Angola
Maputo, Mozambique
Lilongwe, Malawi
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Contents of Presentation

• Potato production and poverty
• Production trends
• Research Portfolio

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Potatoes and Poverty
Theisen et al in preparation
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Potatoes and Poverty
Theisen et al in preparation
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Potatoes and Poverty
Theisen et al in preparation
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Focus countries for Sweden and CIP

• Africa Asia
• Ethiopia Bangladesh
• Kenya Burma
• Malawi China
• Mozambique Philippines
• Rwanda India
• South Africa Indonesia
• Tanzania Vietnam
• Uganda Central Asia
• Latin America
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Colombia

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Potato area from 1961-1970 by region based on the
classification of developed and developing
countries at the time of the founding of the
International Potato Center in 1971
Source Walker in preparation
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SSA trends in selected crops area
Source www.faostat.org
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Value of world potato exports 1986-2005
(US)
Source www.faostat.org
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MTP Projects

• Collection, conservation and characterization
• Genetic enhancement and crop improvement
• Crop management and protection
• Production systems and the environment
• Agriculture and human health
• Partnerships, markets and policies

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1. Collection, Conservation and
Characterization

• Collections potato, sweetpotato and Andean roots
  and tubers
• ISO 17025 Accreditation
• In-vitro germplasm acquisition, management and
  distribution, disease testing
• Tuber and true seed, true-to-type next
• Characterization work
• Traditional agronomic and biotic resistance
• non-traditional abiotic and nutraceutical
• Diversity Management
• in-situ collections
• repatriation

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2. Genetic Enhancement Crop Improvement

• Genes and genetic products useful for priority
  constraints identified and utilized
• Potato varieties with improved characteristics
  for
• late blight
• viruses
• bacterial wilt
• drought and heat
• Nutritional content (iron, zinc
• Sweetpotato varieties with characteristics for
• viruses
• sweetpotato weevil
• heat and drought
• forage utility
• nutritional content (iron, zinc)
• Genetic engineering for
• Potato Late blight
• Sweetpotato weevil
• Sweetpotato viruses

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3. Crop Management and Protection

• Pathology
• Diagnostic Platforms
• Field-based, real-time PCR
• Disposable test strips (pregnancy test)
• Global risk management systems
• Entomology
• Ecological pest management technologies
• Risk assessment models for climate change
• Innovative rapid multiplication systems

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4. Production Systems and the Environment

• Assessments of vulnerability and resilience of
  major potato and sweetpotato systems
• Magnetic resonance to modeling root architecture,
  growth and development
• Ideotyping through joint phenology / genomic
  measurements for GxE
• Remote sensing for productionand yield
  forecasting
• Adaptation recommendations for climate change
• CC scenarios linked to geospatial models
• 3D scenarios of landscape changes

Sources USDA, ERS 2006
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5. Agriculture and Human Health

• Linkage maps of agriculture and human health
• Positive and negative feedbacks in learning sites
• Benefits of food-based approaches to nutrition
• Dietary intervention strategies
• Under-five benefits measurement
• Human health risk-reduction impacts of
  agricultural practices
• Pesticides impacts

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6. Partnerships, Markets and Policies

• Targeting research
• Market monitoring and value chain assessment
• Institutional Learning and Change
• Ex-post Impact Assessment

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